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Lídia Pereira (JSD, Portugal) was born and raised in Coimbra. She graduated from the University of Coimbra in Economics and she holds a Master degree in European Economic Studies from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium). During her academic studies, Lídia had the opportunity to take part in the Erasmus programme, studying in Prague (Czech Republic) for one semester. Additionally, she was always involved and assumed several responsibilities in the Student Association and University/College bodies. Later on, she became politically active in JSD. She started as a member of JSD in her hometown (Coimbra) and elected JSD’s Vice President at the regional level soon after. In May 2016, Lidia has been appointed International Secretary of JSD’s Board (2016-2018). She previously served as YEPP Vice President. After a traineeship at the European Investment Bank, Lidia became a consultant
in the financial sector.

Eileen was born in Cork, Ireland in 1990. She graduated with a Degree in Law and Irish from University College Cork (UCC) in 2012 and obtained a Higher Diploma in Employment Law from the King’s Inns, Dublin in 2015. She is currently working as a lawyer in Cork having previously worked as a legal executive in city law firms in Belfast and Dublin, an intern in the Office of the Attorney General and as Parliamentary Assistant in the areas of Health and Agriculture in the Irish Senate. She has been involved in Young Fine Gael and Fine Gael for many years, having served on the board of Young Fine Gael as Southern Regional Organiser from 2011-2013, International Secretary from 2015-2017, as well as branch chairperson and secretary of her local branch. She is also a former member of the Executive Council of Fine Gael from 2014-2018. She previously served as Financial Auditor and Vice President of YEPP.

Stephan Beer was born in Nuremberg on the 27th of March in 1985. After school, he began studying Pharmacy at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2007 and 2009 Applied Chemistry at the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg. Since 2015 he is working for a pharmaceutical company. In 2005 he joined Bavaria’s CSU. In his 13 years of political activity for the JU and the CSU, he has worked in several different thematic fields on all organizational levels. From 2011 to 2017 he was Chairman of the Regional Executive Board of Junge Union Nürnberg-Fürth-Schwabach, Member of the Regional Executive Board of CSU Nürnberg-Fürth-Schwabach. In April 2017 he became a member of the YEPP Board as a Vice President and since November 2018 he is our First Vice President.

Christina Balaska was born in Athens and raised in the south suburbs of the city. She studied law at the Law School of Athens, earning her degree in 2015. During her studies, she received the Erasmus scholarship and studied for a period of six months in the Law School of the University of Stockholm. In 2017 she earned her LL.M. degree in European Union Law from the Law School of Athens. An active advocate for the rights of young professionals in Greece, she is working as an Attorney at Law and Legal Consultant to one of the biggest greek insurance companies in Athens, specializing in commercial and insurance law. Starting from her high school student years, Christina has always been actively involved in her environment. She joined ONNED as well as the student affiliated party, DAP-NDFK, in 2010. Ever after, Christina has served in various positions and fields of responsibility of both organizations, at a local level (member of the local ONNED board of her hometown, responsible for women's affairs) as well as centrally. Currently, she is the International Secretary of ONNED while previously she served YEPP from the position of Vice-President for the 2017-2018 mandate.

Ali-Reza was born in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan in 1993. He lived his childhood as a refugee and moved to Finland at the age of 10. At the age of 19, he was elected to the City Council of Kangasala as its youngest member. Four years later, he was re-elected. He got active in Kokoomusnuoret at the age of 19 and has served twice in the regional Board, and twice in the national Board before being elected as the Vice-President of the organization. As a member of the National Board, he acted as the International Secretary of KNL. In 2018, Ali-Reza was elected as the Vice-President of KNL’s mother party, National Coalition Party, Council. In his personal time, Ali-Reza studies business at Tampere University and is majoring in risk management. He occasionally works as a Persian translator.

Christian Zoll was born in Dornbirn on the 25th of May in 1993. He studied Law at the University of Vienna and gained some experience in the field of tax law working in several relevant positions. He has been active in various political fields on all organizational levels. For instance, he has been engaged in the board of Junge ÖVP since 2015, he has worked as a political assistant to a Member of parliament and has been head of the youth campaign and the voluntary movement for the state election 2014 in Vorarlberg. Apart from his mandate in YEPP, since 2015 he has been engaged as the president of the Austrian National Youth Council, the official and legally established representative body for over 3 million young people, and has been occupied in the field of law.

Karlo Ressler is a lawyer, scientist and an advisor to the Prime Minister of Croatia. He is a doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany with the doctoral research project on trafficking in human beings in and through Southeast Europe. He had previously worked as an Assistant of MEP Andrej Plenković (HDZ/EPP), as well as an Assistant at the Faculty of Law – University of Zagreb, where he had graduated law magna cum laude in 2013. Final year of his Master of Laws programme, he had spent studying European and public international law at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. In the 10 years of his engagement in Croatian Democratic Union, he has been involved with various operational, legal and political tasks. Karlo is a debater, who has successfully participated in numerous domestic and international debating tournaments, including a European and three World University Debating Championships. He is married and a father of two children.

Agnes Zsofia Magyar was born in Hajdúszoboszló (Hungary), in the Europe-wild famous city of its largest spa complex in Europe. After five and a half years spent in the European Parliament as Accredited Parliamentary Assistant to the Hungarian EPP Delegation, she currently serves as special adviser to the Hungarian State Secretary for EU Relations. Previously, she worked for the Foreign Affairs Cabinet of FIDESZ as a political adviser, and prior to that as Head of Secretariat of Foreign Affairs Directorate in the Hungarian Presidential Office. Before that position, she was in charge of the same tasks in the Office of the Hungarian National Assembly. She studied Institutional Communication at the Metropolitan University of Budapest, and she holds a Master’s degree of Eötvös Lorand University as well.
Agnes was Head of the Brussels Office of her youth organization, Fidelitas during the years spent in the EU Bubble, and she is still advisor of European affairs in her hometown. She is often invited to share her thoughts in the national media as an expert on French domestic politics.
Her passion is Kangoo-jumps but adores books, cats, and voyage.

Marcello Gamberale Paoletti holds a BA in political Philosophy and a Master in Political Science and Government. During his school years, he studied in the US and later started writing for Italian newspapers. While working for Il Giornale he was appointed editor-in-chief of the national magazine of the organisation Il Buongoverno, so beginning his political activism for centre-right values. His professional career has been entirely devoted to digital innovation, he has founded two start-ups, successfully exited the first and currently chairs the latter, a software products company based in Milan. He was elected vice-secretary of the Italian Youth of EPP in 2011, and in 2012 he became a member of the international board of Forza Italia Giovani and a permanent delegate to YEPP.

Zsombor (MIÉRT, Romania) was born in Transylvania, Romania, in the town of Sfântu Gheorghe / Sepsiszentgyörgy. He is a graduate of Romania’s most renowned law school, the Faculty of Law at Babeș Bolyai University of Cluj / Kolozsvár. Currently, he works as a legal adviser and a consultant in the Parliament of Romania. Zsombor started his work in the youth field as a volunteer in political campaigns and has been active in Hungarian Youth Conference from Romania (MIÉRT) since 2013. He has held many positions at various levels of the organization, became a Board Member in 2015 and was elected Vice President of MIÉRT in 2017. During this time he has helped organize numerous events, training, and seminars aimed at engaging the Hungarian youth from Romania. He worked on influencing policy decisions and helping draft legislation in various domains. Zsombor is a member of the Sfântu Gheorghe / Sepsiszentgyörgy Local Council on behalf of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (DAHR).

Mara Mares was born In Fagaras, a mountain town in Transylvania, Romania, where she lived until the age of 16. Mara then moved to the United Kingdom for 8 years, where she studied in Oxford and London. She holds a BA in European and International Studies with Spanish from King’s College London and a BSc in European Public Policy from University College London. Following her studies, she has returned to Romania, where, in 2016 she was elected a Member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies. A year later, she was elected Chairwoman of TNL, the youth organization of the National Liberal Party, the main center-right party in Romania. Since November 2018, Mara is also YEPP Vice-President. Mara is currently the youngest Member of the Romanian Parliament and a karate black-belt

Nikola Erić (Youth Union of SNS) was born in Prokuplje, Serbia, on 24th July 1987. Since December 2017, Erić serves as the Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia. Prior to this appointment, from 2014 to 2017, Erić served as Advisor to the Minister for European Integration, and from 2012 to 2014 as foreign affairs assistant to a member of Parliament. In 2016, Erić participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), a premier program of the U.S. Department of State. Also, over the years, he participated in numerous programs of political education, organized by the International Republican Institute, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Westminster Foundation for Democracy, Hanns Seidel Stiftung, etc. He is a member of the Main Board of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and a member of SNS Council for International Cooperation. Erić holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Sciences. Currently, he attends the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In general, his sphere of interest is related to foreign policy, national and global security, as well as european integration.

Martin Hallander was born in Skurup, a small town outside of Malmö in southern Sweden, in 1993. He has studied theology & Public Administration at the Universities of Lund, Uppsala, and Gothenburg. Martin is currently working as the National President of the Swedish Young Christian Democrats. His main interest includes campaigning and policy development, especially when it comes to European affairs. Martin was elected president of KDU, Sweden in November 2018 and has before that been active as the international secretary and vice president of KDU and also was responsible for running the election campaign for the Swedish Christian Democrats in Malmö in 2018. He also sits in the board of the Swedish Christian Democrats. In November 2018, at the YEPP Congress in Athens, Martin was elected as Vice-President of YEPP.

Tino Schneider was born in Chur, a small Town in the east of Switzerland, in 1991. He studied History and World Society & World Politics at the Universities of Bern and Lucerne. Tino is currently working for Farner Consulting, Switzerland’s biggest PR-Agency. His main focuses are campaigning, political networking and Public Affairs. In 2014 he got elected in the Parliament of the Canton Grison as youngest member and got re-elected in June 2018. There, he is currently Vice-President of the Christian democratic group and member of the Audit Committee. Tino got elected as national President of the youth of the Christian Democratic People’s Party (JCVP Switzerland) in November 2015. Further, he got elected into the board of the mother party CVP Switzerland in April 2016. In November 2018, at the YEPP Congress in Athens, Tino got elected as Vice-President of YEPP.

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